Tag: arts & culture
The first World Cup match in Philadelphia is less than 50 days away, and perhaps no one in the city is as excited for the tournament to begin as the…
A mural honoring the late Pierre Robert is in the works, and Mural Arts Philadelphia is seeking the public’s input for the ideal site. Mural Arts is searching for a…
Presenting a comprehensive overview of American art from 1700 to 2026 is a big undertaking for one museum. But can two get the job done? The Philadelphia Museum of Art…
A shiny new set of brass letters gleams from the sidewalk outside Mighty Writers in Germantown. Together, the words form a poem about dreams and untimely death. The piece is…
A Hispanic group pushed to get an image of César Chávez covered up on a mural in Fairhill following a New York Times report that accused the civil rights leader…
Perhaps the most striking piece in the Museum for Art in Wood collection is also one of its most rarely seen — for good reason. “Once Upon a Sandbank” is…
A contest is underway to select the quote that will appear on the soon-to-be-installed Harriet Tubman statue in Center City. In February, Philadelphia officials released an open call asking for…
For its semiquincentennial exhibit, the Asian Arts Initiative didn’t have to sift through centuries-old letters or dusty, decaying artifacts. It drew on a very recent chapter of Philadelphia history: the…